It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the website of the Bolitho School.
Having just taken up the baton as the Headmaster of this historic school I feel privileged to have been given the opportunity to lead the pupils and staff into the next stage of the school’s development.

This is a dynamic and vibrant community which upholds the values of a traditional education whilst, at the same time, engaging in innovation appropriate to education at the start of the 21st Century. Our purpose is to provide an outstanding education for children, supporting them in their passage to adulthood by developing character and intellect within a small community in which each individual is cared for and valued equally. Such a stimulating and supportive atmosphere enriches children in all aspects of their academic and personal development in such a way as to prepare them to face a future of change and challenge. I believe that education should be an exciting, uplifting and liberating experience, a process that unlocks a world of opportunity. It must give pupils a lifelong appetite for knowledge and understanding, a curiosity about the world and a delight in it.

After visiting Bolitho for the first time, parents and visitors often comment on the welcoming and friendly atmosphere of the School; how pupils are calm and at ease with each other and their teachers. Visitors welcome the opportunity of looking in classrooms and witnessing for themselves young people engaging with their teachers and enjoying their learning.

Regularly coming top of the league tables in external examinations for Cornish Schools is very pleasing. However that is not the full story. Although we have a reputation for academic excellence we are deliberately not an academic “hothouse”. We believe that education should travel far beyond the confines of the syllabus and the classroom. Minds are opened and spirits enriched by opportunities for sport, the creative and expressive arts and the pursuit of Learning in all its diverse forms. Here we want pupils to feel sufficiently secure to explore something new, to take a risk or to challenge an idea, and have the space and support to develop their own initiatives. We hope they will discover for themselves who they are, with the responsibilities that this entails in a changing world, leaving school equipped for service and leadership.

I am lucky that in being a headmaster I can directly affect much of what the pupils experience whilst they are here. For this privilege I am determined to ensure that those who have strengths continually have something to yearn for, and those who have weaknesses have nothing to run away from.

I sincerely hope that you will consider the Bolitho School for your child. I would like you to meet with me to look around the School, to converse with current pupils, and to discuss the opportunities which Bolitho could offer. I can assure you that you will receive a warm Bolitho Welcome.

I look forward to meeting you.

Mark Shere
Headmaster